Quotes

"...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions."-Richard Dawkins

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."-Richard Dawkins

"The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear."-Richard Dawkins

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."-Richard Dawkins

"(Religion) With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion"-Steven Weinberg

"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."-Mark Twain

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.."-Thomas Jefferson

"What have been [Christianity's] fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."-James Madison

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."-Thomas Jefferson

"Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion."-Jon Stewart

"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."-James Madison

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."-John Adams

"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."-Abraham Lincoln

"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."-Abraham Lincoln

"I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States." -Thomas Edison

"All thinking men are atheists."-Ernest Hemingway

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”-Carl Sagan

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”-Carl Sagan

“You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.”-Carl Sagan

“Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.” -Carl Sagan